Vith this countrx he was greatly pleased, and after crefullv

examining the coast, discovered convenient spot on which to pl;nt settlement. Here he went ashore with all his men, fortified a post, and leving one hundred and twenty of his company to protect it, once more put out to se. /e returned without further adventure to Vales, where he told his countrymen of his voyage, the richness of soil in the new discovered land, the amiability of the ntives, the wealth to be found there; in shaft, everything which could attract settlers. /e complained ta them that they fought for barren lands when there was all this to be had without fighting. FinMly he succeeded in inducing many to join him, and once more put to sea with en ships loaded with provisions. The second voyage ccupied eight months and teu days, but in the course of time Madoc regained his settlement. There he found but few of his garrison left, and the storytellers ascribe this to their incu6ous indulgence in the fruits of strange country, or to the hostility of the ntives. Aided by his brothers Eiueon ,nd IdwM, 5Iadoc restored order, ndt hen waited the arriwl of more Welshmen. No one, however, hd the ce to follow, whether because of wrs with England or because courage ws wnting. For one generation the colony kept together, with the Welsh law nd l:uguage, and the Christian religiou. Then, s time went on, they intermarried with the ntives, and were 1)y slow degrees bsorbed."

This is very pretty story, and may be said to hve been universally accepted and believed in Vales at the beginning of this century, whilst the poet Southey was for time convinced of the discoveries of the Velsh prince, and :Bron /tumboldt considered that they deserved respectful investigation, ddin, "I by no means share the contempt with which some writers tret the story."

The substance of this account is drawn from Sir Thomas Herbert's 'Travels illtO Afi'ica and A.-ia,' quote,1 in Stephens' (.T.) ' 3Iadoc,' 30, 31. a Evans' ' Drych y l'rif

(',,smos' (B,,hn), ii. 610. R. H. Major--a go,,,t authority--shares his respect. 'olmal,us, Letters, xx. tber at,thoritics who appear to have accepted the atm,y with s.me qualification are Torf;eus, t 'ampbell, ' Admirals ': Lyttleton,' I lenLv the Second'; Pinkerton, ' Voyages' (xii. 157). Bowen (B. F.), 'America Discovered by the Wel.-h' (I'hila. 3t;), makes a very great deal out of a very little, and seems over-crednlous. De Costa, ' Pro-Columbian Voyages of Welsh' (Albany, 18'.), accepts Madoc's discovery. Bat all these writers al.qear to have been deceived by he garblexl renderings an,1 citations of Powel. T. Stephens' monogntl,h on Ma,l,,c (' 3Ia, loc,' by Thos. S'tepbens, London, 1,) is at once exhaustive, distinguished 1,y criti,'al acrehen, and, il' sceptical, convincing. .x_ fnll bibliography is